Metallic tie and rail-fastener.



No. 732,476. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1903.

.v. c. WASHABAUGH.

. METALLIC TIE AND RAIL PASTBNER.

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V. G. WASHABAUGH.

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Patented June 30, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

VERNON O. VVASHABAUGH, OF STAUFFERS, PENNSYLVANIA.

METALLIC TIE AND RAlL -FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 732,476, dated June 30, 1903.

Application filed April 20. 1903.

To all w/tomit may concern:

Be it known that -I, VERNON G. WASHA- BAUGH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Stauffers, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Ties and Rail-Fas tenings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in metallic ties and railfasteners; and the primary object of my invention is to provide a metallic tie to which the rails may be easily and seen rely fastened.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a metallic tie that may be constructed of structural iron or other metal; and

another object of the invention is to construct a tie embodying an intermediate body with two members or sections projecting: therefrom in one direction and a single member projecting therefrom in the opposite direction, the ties being alternated in laying the same on the road-bed. Each of the sections is provided with means for securing the rails thereto, and in describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, and wherein like numerals of reference will be employed for designating the same parts throughout the different views .of the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a detail top plan view of my improved tie with the fastening means for the rail removed. Fig. 2 is an end view of the ties, showing a portion of a rail in posi tion. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a part of a tie, showing a portion of a rail held therein. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view'of a portion of one of the ties, showing the rail in cross-section. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the saddle-plates to receive the rails. Fig. 6 is a like View of the stirrup forming a part of the fastening means. Fig. 7 is a like view of one of the angular racks. Fig. 8 is a top plan view of a modified form of tie in whichthe end members are secured to the body instead of being formed integral therewith. Fig. 9 is a detail perspective view of amodified form of saddle-plate. Fig. 10

" is a like view of a modified form of angular racks '7, having inclined teeth 8 and 9.

Serial No. 163.473. (No model.)

rack upon which the rails are supported and which the saddle-plate engages.

My improved metallic tie is substantially Y-shaped in form, embodying a central or in termediate bodyportion l, somewhat triangular in shape, with a rail-receiving member projecting from one corner thereof, this member 2 being practically on a line drawn centrally between the two rail-receiving members 3. 3, projecting in the opposite direction from the base or body. In laying the ties they will be alternated-that is, the one tie will be laid with the member 2 projecting in one direction and the next tie laid with the member 2 projecting in the opposite direction. The rails are laid on these projecting members of the ties, and each member is in the form of a channel embodying upwardlyextending side walls 4, inclined slightly or converging toward each other toward the top and at their upper edge are bent inwardly and downwardly, as at 5, and then inwardly toward each other to form supporting-ledges 6. To these supporting-ledges are secured, by riveting or other suitable means,angle-shaped The teeth 8 are all inclined in the same direction from the center of the bar to one end, and the teeth 9 are all inclined in the opposite direction from the center to the opposite end of the bar. Resting on top of these bars 7 are saddle-plates 10, provided on their underneath faces with teeth 11 and 12 to engage, respectively, with the teeth 8 and 9 of the bars. The teeth 11 are inclined in the reverse direction to the teeth 8, so as to match therewith, while the teeth 12 are inclined in the reverse direction to the teeth 9, so as to match with the same. These saddle-plates 10 carry lugs 14, struck up from [the plates and adapted to be bent down into engagement with the base of the rails after the latter are laid in position. The saddle-plates are securely held in engagement with the teeth of the rack-bars by means of' stirrups 15, the turned-out or flanged upper ends 16 of which engage with the inner face of the depending side walls of the saddle-plates, as seen in Fig. 2. Through these stirrups 15 extends a tightening-lever 17, that projects out beyond one end of the member 2 or member 8, as the case may be, as seen in Fig. 4. Pivoted to this lever, as at 18, is a channel-bar 19, into which the stirrups extend. This chan nel-bar is supported by the pin 18 and is prevented from dropping at its other end by reason of the fastened end thereof engaging or abutting the supporting-ledges 6. A pull upward on the projecting end of the lever causes the lever to engage with the bottom connecting or cross bar of the stirrups, thus pressing down on said stirrups, and consequently drawing down on the saddle-plates, so as to hold the sarnein position. The lever is fastened and held by a lug l9, struck out from one of the side walls 4 of the rail-receiving member of the tie. I

In Fig. 9 I show a modified form of saddle-plate 10, provided with teeth 11 and having a locking-lip 14: to embrace the rail-base in the same manner as is done by the lugs on saddle-plate 10.

In Fig. 10 I show a modified form of rackbar 7, having teeth 8 0 inclined in different directions and provided intermediate the two sets of teeth with a straight edge 6, on which the rail is adapted to rest-.. \Vhen using this form of saddle-plate, I will employ one at each side of the rail, and with the form of teeth shown in this construction it will be observed that the saddle-plate may be set direct upon the teeth without requiring the sliding in of the same from the side. The saddle-plate would be held down in the same manner as heretofore described for the other construction.

In Fig. 8 I show a modified form of tie, in which the rail-receiving members 2 3 are made separate from the body 1 and are secured thereto by riveting, as at 20, or other suitable means. The construction of fastening means with this form of tie is the same.

While I have herein shown and described the invention in detail, yet in the practice thereof various slight changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A metallic tie of substantially Y-shaped form embodying a central body portion or plate, a channel projecting centrally from one end, and two channels projecting from the opposite end, rack-bars secured to each of said channels, saddle-plates mounted on said rack-bars to receive the rails, and means for securing said saddle-plates in position, substantially as described.

2. A metallic tie and rail-fastenerembodying a substantially Y-shaped tie having three rail-supporting members and an intermediate or central body portion, saddle-plates detachably secured to the rail-supporting members and having inclined teeth to engage like inclined teeth on said members, and means forsecuring the saddle-plates in position,substantially as described.

3. In a metallic tie and rail-fastening, the combination of a substantially Y-sha ped tie having rail supporting members provided on their upper edges with teeth, saddle-plates having teeth to engage with the teeth of the rail-supporting members, lugs carried by said saddle-plates to engage the base of the rails, and means for securing said saddle-plates in position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

VERNON C. WASIIABAUGI'I.

\Vitnesses:

WILLIAM EBERI-IART, E. I. BABB. 

